Tick, Tick … Boom! to They Shall Not Grow Old: the seven best films to watch on TV this week
Lin-Manuel Miranda brings us a vibrant new musical, while Peter Jackson brings the first world war to colourful life in gobsmacking fashion
May 2021
The stage on screen
The Salesman: Arthur Miller’s American classic reframed in Iran
Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-winning film about two married actors has intriguing parallels with the play they are performing
December 2017
Top US films 2017
The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: the full list
A heartrending coming-of-age love story tops our assessment of the best films on US screens over the past year, pipping a kid’s-eye view of Florida, political intrigue, dystopian futures and nightmarish presents
May 2017
Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
Toni Erdmann; The Salesman; Jackie; Who’s Gonna Love Me Now? and more
Maren Ade’s parent-child comedy is a triumph, while Asghar Farhadi’s domestic suspense film doesn’t match his best
March 2017
Box office analysis: UK
Beauty and the Beast waltzes its way to the top of the UK box office
Disney’s decorative, live-action remake starring Emma Watson opens with a monster £19.7m, while smart comedy-horror Get Out gets up to No 3
The Salesman review – Oscar-winning excellence
This Iranian domestic drama from the director of A Separation lays its symbolism on with a trowel – but it works
The Salesman review – Asghar Farhadi's potent, disquieting Oscar-winner
The film caught up in the travel ban row tells the story of a sexual assault that exposes the emotions seething beneath the surface of Iranian bourgeois life
February 2017
Asghar Farhadi's Oscar message looked down on Trump from outer space
Moonlight wins Oscar for best picture … two minutes after La La Land
The Salesman wins best foreign language Oscar
Will Moonlight beat La La land? Our final Oscars 2017 awards predictions
Solidarity is key to resisting Trump, says Oscar-nominated Iranian director
'And the Oscar will go to' … who shall win the 2017 Academy Awards, and why
January 2017
Split still No 1 at US box office as A Dog's Purpose scampers into second
James McAvoy’s bravura turn helped M Night Shyamalan’s film hold the top spot, while A Dog’s Purpose dodged controversy and Resident Evil crept in
Iranian Oscar contender: I'll boycott awards over Trump's 'racist' visa ban
Taraneh Alidoosti, who stars in nominated film The Salesman, joins voices condemning Donald Trump’s reported plans for ban on people from Muslim countries
Unmissable culture of 2017
Forty films to kick off 2017 in UK cinemas
Matt Damon scales The Great Wall, Fifty Shades turns Darker, and we reacquaint ourselves with 20th Century Women … plus Lego Batman, King Arthur and a cyborg Scarlett Johansson
December 2016
2017 Golden Globes: full list of nominations
Here’s who’s up for the awards for the cream of TV and film in Hollywood
May 2016
Peter Bradshaw on Cannes's closing awards: baffling choices don't spoil a vintage year
Peter Bradshaw
George Miller’s jury awarded a mixed bag of prizes that ignored some of the most exciting films at this year’s Cannes film festival. Still, this was an extraordinary year
Asghar Farhadi in Cannes: ‘Terrorists feel they have good reason to be violent'
The Oscar-winner has said he is embarrassed by the insulting mistreatment of intellectuals in Iran, and described how his new film shows how deep-seated traditionalism can turn progressive people to extreme violence
The Salesman review: Asghar Farhadi offers layers of Willy Loman
A middle-class couple start to see cracks in the brickwork in the A Separation director’s new drama, a deft spin on Arthur Miller’s play
